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Death Penalty in the Philippines
Death Penalty in the Philippines
|Aquino administration |
|1987 |
|According to the 1987 Constitution, |
| Art. III (Bill of Rights), Sec. 19. |
|(1) Excessive fines shall not be imposed, nor cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment inflicted. Neither shall death penalty be imposed, |
|unless, for compelling reasons involving heinous crimes, the Congress hereafter provides for it. Any death penalty already imposed shall be|
|reduced to reclusion perpetua. |
|In mid-1987, a bill to seeking to reinstate the death penalty for 15 'heinous crimes' including murder, rebellion and the import or sale of|
|prohibited drugs was submitted in Congress. |
|1988 |
|In 1988, the military started lobbying for the imposition of the death penalty. Then Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief General Fidel |
|Ramos was prominent among those calling for the reintroduction of the death penalty for rebellion, murder and drug-trafficking. The |
|military campaign for the restoration of the capital punishment was primarily against the CPP-NPA, whose offensives then included urban |
|assassination campaigns.
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